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I was disappointed to see that this was really a list of things that haven’t really worked out well for the author.

As someone who’s having a hard time gaining lots of new users for my service[1], I was really looking forward to some actual lessons in what’s worked. I checked out the Case Studies, but the content wasn’t anything new or particularly relevant to the scrappy startup situation. I think the most useful content on Grow/Hack right now is this post with actual lessons learned in growth hacking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603640

[1] It would be remiss of me not to mention it: Iron Money https://ironmoney.com/
Yeah, I forget my phone way more than I forget keys, because I need the keys to open (NFC/HID) the door to the garage and to use the car. I use a deadbolt so I can't lock myself out of the apartment, but also can't go into the garage without keys, and I ~never go out the front door. I end up leaving my phone docked in my car about 10% of the time by accident, though.

The key (heh) to not forgetting anything, though, is to have a consistent set of pockets for things -- I always keep keys+knife, flashlight, wallet+cash, iphone in specific pockets. The only times I get screwed up is when I wear clothing without the right layout of pockets.
I hate sensationalist headlines. This is not "baffling".
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My 30 year old senior director calls herself a girl in the office. Intent matters more than vocabulary.
is your point that given the expectations, growing at the level of 100,000s users isn't good for Quora? cause most sites would be happy with that performance
This is entirely anecdotal, but I think a lot of people underestimate how important iTunes is to the success of the ipod/iphone/ipad.

Speaking for myself, one of the main reasons I chose an iphone+ipad over android is because I love watching indie films, and iTunes is great for this. Their content library includes so much stuff that just isn't available anywhere else. Being able to instantly start watching a high quality version of a relatively obscure indie film can currently only be done on an apple platform (please correct me if I'm wrong here).

I would love it if iTunes was available on other platforms, but I can't see it happening. I don't understand why no one else has been able to secure these content deals that Apple seems to exclusively hold.
If encountering one or two bugs is such a seriously debilitating experience for you, I strongly suggest you stop using any software labelled with the word "Beta", or in this case, "Preview" - or any software at all, for that matter.
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>I can't imagine an OEM wanting to sleep in Microsoft's bed when they're going toe to toe with the people who build the OS themselves.

So, are you saying if Apple opened up and allowed OEMs to license iOS, no one would sign up?

I think every phone maker would jump on that.
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Ok I'll bite and explain it.

You're right, sometimes someone else will find a block before you and will add it onto the longest existing chain. IF you always appended your bad blocks to the longest chain then the blockchain would look something like bad->bad->good->bad->bad->good->bad->bad. BUT you WONT be adding your blocks to the longest chain. You will always add your blocks to YOUR OWN last bad block. So you will always be working on a blockchain that looks like ... ->bad->bad->bad->bad. And since you have 51% of the power your blockchain will eventually always be longer than the other chain(s) miners are working on. For a while the two chains (legitimate and your bad one) will go back and forth between which is longer. But at some point yours will get long enough and outpace the legitimate one.

If you don't understand this you don't understand how bitcoin works. I don't say this to be a dick, but I say it because this is a real concern that a lot of people don't realize or think about.
I haven't researched much, but the last review I read said the Air had the worst screen of the recommended models (I think they talked about Zenbooks, Samsung Series 9 and some other). Whatever - even if they cost the same, can't you imagine some people just don't want a Mac? I actually like the Series 9 design. I would install Linux, though.

The only reason I am still unsure about ditching the Mac is the faint possibility of having to do iOS development in the future. Truth be told, and sorry, that is emotional not so much rational, but I loathe Apple.

As for the tax, it is probably true that Apple ships the largest numbers, but they buy their parts (like displays) from other companies. These companies presumably have therefore also access to cheap parts.
Sorry, I cannot advise there for new ways, because since 2001 I've moved into JVM/.NET/C++, depending on the project am assigned to.

However, I've kept an eye on the C99 and C11 standards processes, and at least in Germany there are a few authors with books about those standards.

But it is not the same as having the famous C book updated to the latest standards. Mainly as a collector item, in my case.
Both the way the OP question was asked, and your answers are fantastic.
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I don't think they are using an Arduino Mega. They are using the same processor that an Arduino uses which is the Atmel ATmega, which is a very common processor for microcontrollers.
Interesting, but MailChimp didn't start with these social media login options, did they? So the low percentage of people using those to sign in probably means that most of those people registered after they were in place?

Also, regarding the CEO's email and the confusion of so many options on the homepage, that's merely a design issue. Those buttons don't need to take up so much room or be so bold. They could simply be links with tiny corresponding icons underneath the default login form. Taking those options away would be a detriment to both current users of those methods and future users who prefer the quick registration process it provides.

The argument thereafter that these logins could easily dissipate and are therefore unreliable is solved the same way SoundCloud does it; allow the user to set a username and password separate from their social networking account in their settings. The only problem with the SoundCloud method, at least at the time I did it, was that in order for it to activate, you had to reset your password. As far as the security point is concerned, that's a risk the user takes and another benefit to having both site-specific credentials and the social media tie-in.
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Man... I don't know what I'd do if an interviewer presented that situation up front and very directly. "We'll hire you fast, but we won't hesitate to let you go." I wouldn't be able to stop thinking of the bad news bears scenario where I quit my job, get hired, and fired at the new one within a couple months. I guess it depends how awesome the job is that I'm applying for and how (not) awesome the job is that I'm leaving.
cmon dont be patronizing, point is D'Angelo can float this thing as long as he wants
yeah, looks like the only difference is the original displays actual CSS shapes while the bootleg just shows images.
We took a whack at this problem (agree it is big issue worth solving) last year with Streamliner, http://www.streamliner.co.

(Hint: ignore the video-specific text and paste in a blog post or article URL.)

Couple of examples: http://www.streamliner.co/s/S2C72QTZ/booster-camera-video-of... (video) and http://www.streamliner.co/r/eErbi/always-be-skeptical-of-nut... (text)

We rolled out with video initially because of text-stripping issues and the extreme low likelihood of users installing a bookmarklet/extension. Building a community of engaged trustworthy summarizers is also very hard.

Good luck!
imagine paying > $200/yr to use Quora, unlikely that more than 100,000 people are willing to do that

It's unlikely that more than ten persons are willing to pay $200 per year to use Quora in its current condition, and it's even less likely that those ten would stick around once everyone else left.

In other words, your example has even more force than you suggested.

AFTER EDIT: By the way, user droithomme nails it with his user's-eye-view description of Quora elsewhere in this thread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603653

AFTER FURTHER EDIT: I just did some specific searches on Google, site-restricted to Quora, which breaks through Quora's wall of obscurity and allows me to see current highly voted answers to questions on topics of known controversy in online discussion. The answers are crap. They don't even cite good sources, but are mostly anecdotes of lower quality than the typical anecdotes found on HN, and in some cases the anecdotal answers directly contradict what careful scientific research has found to be the general correct answer for the same question. But on many issues, Quora is just the opinionated leading the opinionated, and no one makes the effort to LOOK UP better, more reliable sources. I like the user culture here on Hacker News much better. I read whole books, for fun, after learning about those books on factual topics here on HN. I see no reason to put up with Quora's annoying user interface to get into a community with such poor quality control on the answers to the submitted questions.
To be more specific you have to use some crazy static analysis technology (global interprocedural analysis) that is intractable unless you sacrifice accuracy. Human have similar problems as compilers/tooling, though they are a bit better at understanding nuanced conventions to make better judgements about what dynamic code is doing.
BTW, although IBM is based in the US the ThinkPad line was originally designed and manufactured in Japan before the sale to Lenovo.
One of the best points in the whole post, I think this point should have been front-and-center: blogging isn't for everyone. Well that, and 'why are you writing'? My wife writes and publishes content, for example, because she loves designs and sharing it with the world though it's mostly all written from her perspective. I write because I don't want to forget something; one of the best ways to learn/remember is to teach ... thus I (attempt to) teach.

I believe there is something missing from the post though, maybe I missed it though: people shouldn't expect to become instant blog millionaires by writing a few posts here and there about just anything. Consistency (in voice and sometimes in topic) plus a schedule really do make this all work. Except just like the rabbit and the turtle: this is a race best won slowly.
I would love to see the resulting shitstorm from that sticker actually being on the laptop.
Matt, the founder of Nest, is doing an AMA right now:
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That doesn't say anything about cost. The deal on Google apps is (or used to be) membership in the OHA, which is about app level compatibility.

There are two possible impedients for cheap devices there: 1. minimum hardware requirements (which exploded over the last few Android releases), 2. Google might not care about herding a bunch of small vendors.

reghardware merely "implies" that it's about cash.
Use the tooling to sell the platform? It might be in Microsoft's interest to have some mindshare I this space; JavaScript is a significant part of the windows 8 story from what I can tell.
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This might be pedantic for this thread, I have to point out that Clerks wasn't really a "self financed" movie. At least in the sense that the final product you saw on theaters and on DVD was not paid for by Kevin Smith.

Smith did spend around $30k of his own money on production costs. The bulk of that was for film stock. (Similarly, Rodriguez spent $8k of his own money on Mariachi.)

Now, here's the kicker: Neither one of them spent a dime on film prints. They signed deals and let the studios take care of that. This is significant because if people talked about Clerks' or El Mariachi's budget in those terms, the numbers would be in the rane of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

To put it in perspective: Would you say you "self financed" your startup if a big multinational paid for all the servers and bandwidth from the get go? It's sorta like that.

Saying it in interviews makes for a better story ("College dropout makes major movie for $8,000!") but it's not really accurate.
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It would be interesting/challenging to also offer the figure in a 3D illusion version. (http://www.moillusions.com/2006/03/dragon-illusion.html)
"We don’t even tolerate people brining up concerns of racism here." Translation: "we don't want to admit that we have a toxic, racist corporate culture so we're going to blame the messenger."

The emphasis here is on racism, but there's a ton of casual sexism -- and I'd be surprised if ageism wasn't present, too.

This is, at best, a company where HR have taken their eye off the ball. More likely, there are serious institutional failings (and probable harrassment lawsuits coming down the pipe in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... if they don't do something about the corporate culture fast).

Note: this is me trying to stay dispassionate and non-angry. If I was the author of this piece I'd be incandescent. Props to him for staying calm and documenting this stuff rather than simply walking out. Or exploding.
mscom is only the front page and a small subset of what you might think of as "microsoft.com". Each vertical has its own team, servers, and release cadence; it isn't a setup optimized for brand cohesion.
While I am all Quora'd out -- I really do hope that Yahoo would buy them.

I've said many times on HN that Yahoo needs to start getting REALLY aggressive in the valley to stay alive; they need to be investing in every startup that comes along and acquiring many more.

All the brain trust is being gobbled up by google and (even moreso, recently) facebook.

I personally think that Acquihires are a bad thing (TM) for the state of our industry... but if Yahoo has any hope in hell, they need to inject some innovative blood into themselves in a damn hurry.

(with that said, I am not sure that Quora is really all that innovative - their UX model was only good when they were tiny - but now they have far too large a signal to noise ratio that is exacerbated by their UX implementation (hijacking typed text, @s etc etc etc)
I was able to get in through the employee page:
http://www.quora.com/about/team
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>but access to the Google apps is indeed free

It certainly is not free. Either the OEM who sold the device to you paid off Google for your access(i.e included in the hardware cost you paid the OEM) or you have to violate copyright(along with whoever uploaded them to the host who is vulnerable to a DMCA takedown) to get those apps.

Can you find me a legal link to some or any Google apps .apk file(s) to load on to, say the Kindle Fire?
That's still pretty early. I worked at Inktomi, LookSmart and LinkedIn. Once your database is distributed, you can optimize the hell out of your systems. Not everything interacts with everything. If you cannot make your costs grow slower than your users, you have either a technical problem or a product problem (this happened at Friendster, long story).
"Most NodeJS programmers aren't choosing NodeJS from a toolbox of 5-10 technologies that they know really well. They're choosing NodeJS from a list of hipster approved technologies that they can brag about to their friends."

See, I can make ridiculous statements about things I don't know anything about too!

(note: I no next to nothing about NodeJS - I enjoy javascript as a language but haven't had a chance to actually use NodeJS beyond a couple tutorials)
I think some distinction should be made in the different types of websites out there. Social logins may be fine for social type sites but Mailchimp is ostensibly more business oriented, except for maybe a niche of bloggers or social media types whose personal/social identities are interchangeable with their professional identities, I think the majority of users out there would want to keep their personal and business credentials separate.

I can understand why the CEO would not want to blur the lines between the professional persona and the social one, after all if in Twitter and Facebook the users are the product and not the customer that could lead me, a Mailchimp customer, wondering how Mailchimp perceives me as well.
Are you saying people would have problems with any "Made in USA" sticker, or that one in particular (which is obviously a fanciful clipart made in MS Paint)
> the worse abusers are people like Hoover and Nixon - people who will use this data to try to push political aims.

I would submit that, given the ability to abuse such centralized and accessible information for political aims, a large percentage of people would do so; incentives have a remarkable way of corrupting power. And that's precisely why I oppose such things even when I have nothing to hide.
You should consider offering an option to scale these up to life size.
Way to advertise yourself :)
thanks!interesting take on the problem. Would love to talk to you about your experience if you're up for it!
Interesting read. The number of times the author mentions "white men" honestly made me uncomfortable. How is a statement like "Steve then proceeds to do what white men always can’t help but do: “educate.”" not racist in and of itself?
He has none - he's spouting an unfounded view about a technology that he has no idea about.
"It's easy to dismiss this project by saying, "It's just a page. Big deal." That would miss the point entirely. It would also be entirely inaccurate. The Micrsoft.com ..."
Local news reporting on the issue:
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I'm skeptical that PHP is the "web's most popular programming language", and feel it serves no other purpose in the title than to be inflammatory.

From the article: "Wikipedia says 75 percent of websites use PHP."

From wikipedia: "PHP is used as the server-side programming language on 75% of all Web sites"

However, that's not what its source says.

From wikipedia's source[1]: "PHP is used by 78.1% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know." And I'd be willing to bet that PHP (and the runner-up, ASP.net) are easy to identify considering the pages end with particular extension (which isn't the case with other technologies).

The article gives no other proof save an unverified quote from Zend that states that PHP runs 35% of web requests. It even gives evidence to support the conclusion that PHP's popularity is declining.

[1] http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_languag...
I thought their ads were bad enough. Assuming this story is true, it sounds like Kixeye is the absolute epitome of the worst that our profession has to offer.
I don't know what wiki-style voting is but I'll look it up. Thanks for the feedback!
This seems trivial since it's assumed the users are "immortal" - never leaving the product.

Maybe I'm not the target audience for this article though.
I didn't want to pay for an SSL certificate that would pass SSL validation (read: not StartCom, not CACert, and I will never ever support GoDaddy). Domain registration fees aren't going to break the bank, SSL is another story. Not to mention the whole 'proving who I am' and other identity checks any worthwhile SSL agency employs.
As RDL said, Yahoo is the best likely acquirer and IMO specifically because they need to hedge against Google and FB grabbing up everything in their path.
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The only OEM making Windows Phones that isn't already also making Android phones is Nokia. And given the resounding thud with which Nokia's Windows Phones have fallen (fairly or not), it seems unlikely that Nokia will exclusively pursue Windows Phone to its own demise, Elop or no.

So... there's really no risk to Microsoft here. It's just yet-another Hail Mary For Traction.
true and same for dustin moskovitz. dustin with his $3.5B trying to solve what, todo lists?

but with these at least you realize that - other than their huge financial fortune - those guys are the same average guys as the rest of us.
Being an obtuse asshole and simultaneously managing to get in an accidental slur, too! You're really shooting for the moon here.
I love being able to log in using an OpenID provider rather than creating an account.

Because it's one less !$@%!@$! password to remember. Or it's one less $@&%!@$ hassle adapting my password creation formula to a new site's password requirements. Or it's one less place where my don't-care-use-it-everywhere username/password key is stored, perhaps @$2(! in the clear. Or perhaps it's just one less time I have to type in a @$@(%^! username and password. Or @*($&%! create one.
If a cell phone company really had balls, they'd make a website where you can see realtime and historical location data for every cellphone owned by every elected official and federal judge. They have "no privacy interest", after all, so I guess that would be no big deal...
This is not true everywhere. For example here in Sweden the second lock is usually a lever tumbler lock or some variant thereof. Way harder to pick than pin tumbler locks. What matters is the type of lock, not the number of locks.
When I was 16, I was given a car without keyless entry and I was willing to pluck down $200 (that included installation) for the luxury.

I could see spending $150 to get similar functionality plus the ability to unlock my home remotely and check the state of the lock on the only door I enter/exit from.

My family shares a vacation home up north and I'm tempted to buy this for there as well. Because of its proximity to town (two blocks walk) we've already had plenty of trouble with people locking themselves out because they're not taking their car to the tavern in town and simply forgot their keys in the process. We'd have to get in the habit of only using the deadbolt, or replace the door handle with a non-locking door handle, but it might be worth it to me.
"I do think that there is a correlation between programming smarts and language/framework choice, adjusted for circumstances."

Please, explain this in further detail. List out which languages are "smarter" and why. Please provide empirical evidence to back up this thesis and explain the methodology followed to gather and interpret the data.

Otherwise, stop saying ridiculous things that you can't back up.

In addition, please explain what about PHP makes it unsuitable for the mobile platform when clearly Java does just fine there. I'll need more then a link to the "fractal of bad design" blog post. I'm honestly curious why people continue to talk about PHP's bad design without really explaining what makes their chosen replacement better.